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...skeptical scientists to prove that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Specific | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings Institution's Economist Harold G. Moulton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Short of War | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

That made Institutions the leader of the Industry and Finance section. And that made President Compton of M. I. T., chairman of Institutions, the recipient of the Campaign's first prize, a thirty inch high Orphan Annie doll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gifts Total $53,000 in Community Fund Campaign | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Introduced by Karl T. Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the speakers gave their opinions on what the problem before this country is and the best solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Supporters Defend Intellectual Freedom at Lincoln Day Gathering | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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